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Originally Posted by Harmon
On the other hand, because of the lack of copyright, we do not have any accurate version of Shakespeare's plays. If you know anything beyond high school Shakespeare, you know, for instance, that there are two different versions of Hamlet. We are extremely lucky to have any Shakespeare at all, precisely because his works were not protected. Had he had the protection of copyright, we probably would have some of his missing plays, and certainly what we do have would be more authentic.
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Define accurate. If you mean the pure and unchanged words of the author, then we don't have an accurate version of most stories. Editors have been known to change a few things in stories.
You also seem to consider that it is bad to have two different versions of Hamlet. I would say that two is better than one.